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Methodologies:
Methodologies:
The class will be require you to be hands on about your learning. There will be recorded lectures, tutorials and guided exercises. There will also be discussion of short readings and some quick responses and asynchronous chat or writing about them. In discussion and writing you will have the opportunity to share critical ideas and opinions about the material.
Over the semester we will try out different digital environments–from the easy to the less easy–and use prepared materials to explore analysis of text with computers. We will not be “coding” ourselves from scratch, but rather experimenting with notebooks in a programming language known as "R" to see what kinds of results we can achieve.
There will be smaller groups formed in the course in order to have synchronous breakout sessions in which we will practice straightforward assignments and you will be encouraged to analyze, and critique, the results. (We will have these discussions either in Zoom or in Chat). There will written blog assignments that will draw on our readings and assignments. Emphasis will be placed, less on “getting it right” than on experimentation. All of the written work that you will be doing will be either in Chat or composed in research blog fashion in a Page (such as this syllabus).
Since the language of instruction at NYU Abu Dhabi is English, the course is structured to deal with works written in English. (In remote delivery, the course has been structured around using as many online resources as possible). Students may also explore texts written in other languages in consultation with the instructor. The course will be interesting to a number of majors who work with text. The texts that we will use will come from both history and literature, but the course will introduce a number of skills that are highly transferable to many fields of research and human inquiry and encourage students to reflect critically on those skills.
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